Clinical features
Clinical features include:
- sore throat
- otalgia
- headache and malaise
On examination:
- patient is pyrexial
- tonsils are enlarged and may be exuding pus from the tonsillar crypts - follicular tonsillitis
- pharyngeal mucosa is inflamed
- fetor
- cervical lymph nodes are enlarged and tender
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